The End or Beginning?

Inspired by the cult comic series the “Digedags”, Jörg Herold and Jörg Witte made a Super 8 film in late 1989 on the eternal dream of every GDR citizen, namely to travel. The Digedags travelled the world, as well as bearing witness to the more mundane aspects of everyday life such as the preparations for Leipzig's Christmas market, all the while sticking together, be it over a cup of hot ...

The Swiss artist Daniel Glaser spent a short time in Dresden in 1991: his “outsider's” perspective on the changes taking place at the time is forthright, as he captures his surroundings, raises questions and reveals the absurdity of the moment.

An ironic take on life in the Berlin district of Marzahn. Constructed in a bygone era for industrialised housing that, it was hoped, would serve as a home to socialism's “new man”, filmmaker Jan Ralske captured the district on film in the early nineties as a means of asking: what is Marzahn today? Three jobless locals provide the answers.

A Super 8 film shot in 1990 in Mecklenburg and the border installations recently made open to the public. Having tasted freedom, a number of uneasy questions about the future now demand answers.

Combined by media artist Ramona Köppel-Welsh into a double projection, the featured Super 8 footage creates a wonderful synthesis of diametrically opposed imagery with the music of GDR underground band Ornament & Verbrechen.